Overclocking a Nvidia card in Windows Vista ultimate

elitehacker

elitehacker

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Hi there;
I was given a free vista operating system from my workplace, so I installed it on my pc to give it a try. It was all good until I want to play some games and benchmark. I have found that the nvidia driver provided for vista is very basic, it doesn't support hardware monitoring or overclocking, they even acknowledege that on the nvidia site. "This version is not fully optimized for full 3D performance and may not include all available features available on different operating systems.: [direct quote from the nvidia website] So as a result none of the other overclocking utilities work like Riva tuner and powerstrip, I was wonder if anyone was able to overclock a nvidia card under vista. I was running my 7900GT at 625Mhz core and 1700Mhz effective ram speed, so performance does take a big hit when it drops down to the stock speed of 470Mhz core and 1400Mhz effective ram.

Please help.

Thank you very much.
 
Unfortunately the card here is an MSI Radeon X1300 Pro that saw the latest ATI drivers go right on for the Vista installation currently on a second hard drive here. That went on like a normal update. You will probably find that the best updates for NVida model cards will still take awhile to see. I'm still waiting to see how the ATI tool for this will work there.
 
PC eye said:
Unfortunately the card here is an MSI Radeon X1300 Pro that saw the latest ATI drivers go right on for the Vista installation currently on a second hard drive here. That went on like a normal update. You will probably find that the best updates for NVida model cards will still take awhile to see. I'm still waiting to see how the ATI tool for this will work there.
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What the....?:confused:
 
I have tried cool bits, but coolbits shouldn't work anyway because it just unlocks the overclocking features of the forceware drivers, so since those vista forceware drivers don't have the overclocking feature, then coolbits will not do anything but add a useless string into the registry.

I think I know what that second dude was saying, I guess Ati had been on the ball more than nvidia. My friend has an Ati card and he can overclock it using ati tool. Its just nvidia being lazy. They make great cards, but they are abit lacking in the drivers department.
 
I was using the ATI Catalyst that was Vista capable for the RC1 release back in October. One main reason for having a lead there is the new R500 mobile and R600 series desktop models they have on the way. A look at the Radeon X2000 series cards like the X2900 models is found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R600
 
I have already done that. That is the only way to overclock my graphics card in Vista, but I want to overclock it using software, because its very easy and extremely easily reversible.
 
The problem now is that Vista is still in it's infancy that way like XP was when it was first released. Even with the beta versions seen last fall there really hasn't been the time for programs like the ATI tool. Don't forget XP has been the only new version for desktops including MCE 2005 for 6yrs. where everybody has had plenty of time to work on all kinds of "tweaks".
 
And also the fact that XP is based around Windows 2000 also helps. I can safely say that ALL programs that was developed for 2000 ran without problems with XP. The same can't be said about vista. :(
 
XP is also backward compatible to 16bit to some degree since you can install XP directly onto Fat16 and Fat32 partitions alike. XP Pro includes the base dos files for logging onto older networks from a dos prompt. Vista however will most likely be seen backward compatible with 2000 SP4 and XP2 for the most part with absolutely no support 9X-ME and NT 4.0. It's moved far past those days.
 
And so it should, we can't hope to expect the newest things to continue to support aging technologies.

Any suggestion on my problem anyone?
 
There was some mention of support for NVidia cards when looking over information on the ATI Tool used for ocing. Since it wasn't found on the original software disk I ran a search and ran it here to see the results. http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/5369/atioctoolmaxzw4.jpg

The site with the ATI tool also brought a list of NVidia related links for browsing with the NiBiTor 3.2 being found as the bois editor for the lastest NVidia model cards. http://decoding.wordpress.com/2007/01/20/nvidia-bios-editor-nibitor-32/ Here's the description on it as seen there.

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NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) - 3.2

NiBiTor is the original and defenitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest NVIDIA graphics cards. NiBiTor allows graphics card enthusiasts to have full control over advanced features and functionality found on firmware of supporting cards. And this to gain some extra performance, enable certain hidden features and get extra stability on the NVIDIA based graphics cards.
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Whether this will work on the model you have there or is for the newer 8600 and 8800 models wasn't indicated there or at the referal page. A little popup window came up from the NVidia name in the main features description for the ATI found at http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/
 
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